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Tory Brexiteers want a change to the "backstop" that will trap the UK in EU customs rules if there's no deal for the Irish border.

Yet the EU's Jean-Claude Juncker said there is "no room whatsoever" to renegotiate that part of the deal.

The European Commission President warned "it would appear that there are problems right at the end of the road", adding: "The deal we have achieved is the best deal possible, it is the only deal possible."

Last night Brexit-backing members of the Tory European Research Group banged their fists on desks in Parliament as they met to discuss tactics.

Serial critic Andrew Bridgen told TalkRadio he had met with 1922 Committee chairman Graham Brady to discuss speeding up the procedure for a leadership contest.

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Mrs May's DUP allies warned they would not change their minds. DUP Brexit spokesman Sammy Wilson told the BBC: "Under those circumstances she's going to end up with a deal which doesn't get through Parliament."

Tory Brexiteer ringleader Jacob Rees-Mogg also warned the play for time would achieve nothing.

He said: "The PM goes off to Brussels gets a nice cup of cocoa and it means nothing.

"She will come back with a deal and it will still not pass."

A Tory no confidence vote is triggered if 15% of Tory MPs write a letter to the chairman of the party's so-called "1922 committee".

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Key points from UK's 611-page Brexit deal with EU

The Brexit deal agreed by Theresa May and the EU covers two areas: the Withdrawal Agreement, covering the UK's exit from the EU, and the Political Declaration on a Future Framework, which sets out the relationship with the EU after Britain leaves.